Thread: Heading up waipakihi next week

Originally Posted by Bagheera

If walking up the Waipakihi, keep an eye on this site for the river level. Ideally you want it below 5 cumecs for an easy walk up. Plan B is to walk in to the middle by climbing over the Urchin track. I think it's a bit early yet for much growth on the Waipakihi flats so you would be bush stalking looking for fallen trees and light gaps. The altitude there is about 1000m ASL which is quite high. I wouldn't worry too much about bad weather up there this weekend. It's a long way inland and not much rain reaches it, compared even to Tongariro National Park.

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In the Eastern Ruahines there are valleys and slips around 600m ASL and OK fresh grass there now.

The Kawekas are a fair long drive from Wellington. Put Makahu road into a map app and see how many hours to allow. I don't know much about clay pan hunting sorry. Don't leave your trip there till late summer. It's a very dry rainshadow area and I think there is a risk of being caught in a bushfire.

I was thinking of heading in there this weekend. That site is showing still 12+ cumecs. Does that put it out of the question or still doable but not easy?